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Like New Year’s Eve, Groundhog Day predictions don’t happen all at the same time – they sweep across North America in a wave of bucktoothed prophecies.

The earliest forecast in Canada on Tuesday comes from Shubenacadie Sam, in Nova Scotia’s Shubenacadie Provincial Wildlife park, at precisely 8 a.m. AT. Next up? Ontario’s famous Wiarton Willie (the Canadian answer to the U.S.’s famed Punxsutawney Phil – our Muhammad Ali to their George Foreman), followed by Alberta’s Balzac Billy.

To the more cynical among us it must seem unlikely that an animal could have the ability to predict the weather. The Canadian Encyclopedia notes that a study of weather data places the beasts’ accuracy north of the border at just under 40%, commenting dryly that “33% accuracy can occur by chance.” ...

Wasnt it just last year that both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address occurred on the same day? There was an ironic juxtaposition of events: One involved a meaningless ritual in which we looked to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication. The other involved a groundhog.

Wasnt it just last year that both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address occurred on the same day? There was an ironic juxtaposition of events: One involved a meaningless ritual in which we looked to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication. The other involved a groundhog.

Wasnt it just last year that both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address occurred on the same day? There was an ironic juxtaposition of events: One involved a meaningless ritual in which we looked to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication. The other involved a groundhog.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.C. S. LewisDo not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. (Are you listening Barry)?:mad:Ayn Rand

looks like about 17 out of 19 groundhogs say early spring from the Wiki....

Punxatawney Phill was a minority vote.

Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound - Unknown